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FIRST COLONIZERS NAMED
The question of colonizing Beaver Valley, having met the approval of George A. Smith, the following named men were chosen, with the understanding that they would become permanent settlers: Simeon F. Howd, captain; Wilson G. Nowers, James P. Anderson, Edward W. Thompson, Ross R. Rogers, H. S. Alexander, John M. Davis, Charles Carter, John Henderson, Barney Carter, James Duke, John Knowles, Joseph Goff, James Low, Benson Lewis, and others. These men entered into the project and proceeded, without delay, to prepare for the enterprise. Leaving Parowan on. the 5th of Feebruary, 1856, they made the journey in part of two days, the distance being about thirty-five miles. There had been a heavy fall of snow on the 4th which impeded progress and made it necessary to camp over night south of the Ridge.
The three first named men were in advance of the company and arrived at the Beaver River in the afternoon of February 6, and proceeded at once to prepare logs for a cabin 20 by 20 ft., which was erected on the south bank, a little east of where the bridge now crosses the river. Nearly all of the colonists named and a few others arrived during the week.
On the 9th of March, Apostle George A. Smith and several others, journeying to Salt Lake City, arrived in the Valley. That evening, under the direction of said Smith, the first organization of an ecclesiastical nature was effected. Simeon F. Howd was appointed as the Presiding Elder, and Edward W. Thompson as Clerk of this Branch of the Parowan Ward.
This preliminary organization was celebrated by a banquet or supper at which a pot-pie of venison and potatoes figured most conspicuously and was partaken of in primitive style and eaten with a hearty relish by twenty men and one woman, the wife of Joseph Goff, and their two children, in the log cabin that had by this time been

FIRST COLONIZERS NAMED
The question of colonizing Beaver Valley, having met the approval of George A. Smith, the following named men were chosen, with the understanding that they would become permanent settlers: Simeon F. Howd, captain; Wilson G. Nowers, James P. Anderson, Edward W. Thompson, Ross R. Rogers, H. S. Alexander, John M. Davis, Charles Carter, John Henderson, Barney Carter, James Duke, John Knowles, Joseph Goff, James Low, Benson Lewis, and others. These men entered into the project and proceeded, without delay, to prepare for the enterprise. Leaving Parowan on. the 5th of Feebruary, 1856, they made the journey in part of two days, the distance being about thirty-five miles. There had been a heavy fall of snow on the 4th which impeded progress and made it necessary to camp over night south of the Ridge.
The three first named men were in advance of the company and arrived at the Beaver River in the afternoon of February 6, and proceeded at once to prepare logs for a cabin 20 by 20 ft., which was erected on the south bank, a little east of where the bridge now crosses the river. Nearly all of the colonists named and a few others arrived during the week.
On the 9th of March, Apostle George A. Smith and several others, journeying to Salt Lake City, arrived in the Valley. That evening, under the direction of said Smith, the first organization of an ecclesiastical nature was effected. Simeon F. Howd was appointed as the Presiding Elder, and Edward W. Thompson as Clerk of this Branch of the Parowan Ward.
This preliminary organization was celebrated by a banquet or supper at which a pot-pie of venison and potatoes figured most conspicuously and was partaken of in primitive style and eaten with a hearty relish by twenty men and one woman, the wife of Joseph Goff, and their two children, in the log cabin that had by this time been